Tutors

The SDP tutors are drawn from the OII’s own faculty, with additional guest seminars by visiting faculty. In order to provide useful advice for managing dissertation research, we select tutors applying a wide range of disciplinary and methodological approaches and encourage our speakers to offer frank insights into how they have faced and overcome challenges in their own projects.

SDP 2018 Tutors

Victoria Nash is the OII’s Deputy Director and Policy and Research Fellow. She focuses on linking OII research to policy and practitioner communities.

Bharath is a political geographer focusing on data science and local government and the ethics and politics of researching violent online extremism.

Dr. Sandra Wachter is a lawyer and Research Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in Data Ethics, AI, robotics and Internet Regulation/cyber-security at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Joss Wright’s research interests lie in cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymous communications. His current research focuses on analysing Internet censorship, and data anonymization.

Mark Graham is a geographer that focuses on economic development, labour, power, participation, and representation.

Bernie Hogan has interests in social networks, human-computer interaction, methodology (eg reliable capture of online networks, and networks in interviews), social informatics, quantitative analysis, everyday life, and social accessibility.

Gina is a sociologist who studies innovation, the digital transformation of industries, and how new technologies impact work. She has studied digital change in the media, health care, and construction industries.

Cohen is a sociologist specialising in the quantitative study of human social networks. He has a particular interest in culture and the determinants of network formation.

Tim Highfield is an Assistant Professor in New Media at the University of Amsterdam. His research explores social and digital media, from perspectives including popular culture, politics, news and journalism, irreverence, and fandom.

Eric T. Meyer is Professor of Social Informatics and Director of Graduate Studies. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices.

Kathryn Eccles has research interests in the impact of new technologies on Humanities scholarship, and the re-organisation of cultural heritage and higher education in the digital world.

Jonathan Bright is a political scientist specialising in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.

Andrew Przybylski applies psychological models and motivational theory to study how people interact with virtual environments including video games and social media.

Philip N. Howard is a professor of sociology, information and international affairs. He is the author, most recently, of Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up.

Ralph Schroeder has interests in virtual environments, social aspects of e-Science, sociology of science and technology, and has written extensively about virtual reality technology. His current research is mainly related to e-science.

Rebecca Eynon’s research focuses on learning and the Internet, and the links between digital and social exclusion.